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- Comment on Valve dropped that Steam Machine Companion Cube case down the legal incinerator after its makers neglected to get their permission 2 weeks ago:
My guess would be that Valve had plans to make one themselves. Maybe as sort of a second gen or limited release thing.
Maybe it’s also just not set a precedent. It is pretty crazy to make a product that uses such a famous piece of IP as a big company and not even asked for permission. It’s one thing if you’re like selling crafts on Etsy, but not even asking at that level is wild.
- Comment on Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks 2 months ago:
Depressing seeing so many of the parents and children alike saying that they support it when all of them are basically acknowledging that it doesn’t even work.
The majority of people truly don’t see these laws for what they are, and they just take the name at face value. I can forgive it coming from a 13 year old, lmao, but their parents? Embarrassing
- Comment on Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators 2 months ago:
- Comment on What game had you like this? 3 months ago:
I predict that Cyberpunk 2077 will become this game for me in like 3-5 years
- Comment on [TheGamer] Gaming Site VideoGamer Has Been Banned From Google Following AI Pivot 4 months ago:
Rare Google W, hopefully the moronic company that led this gutting sees nothing but abject financial loss
- Comment on Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs 9 months ago:
Don’t think the fact that corporations use VPNs will protect us. There are all sorts of products that are legal for corporate purchase but not for individuals. Typically dangerous equipment, chemicals, tools, etc. The precedent is there as long as you can establish that a VPN is dangerous or unfit for the public. I’m very sure this will be the angle taken for Phase 2 of the “finally fuck up the internet for everyone” plan.
- Comment on US | Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious” 11 months ago:
Even amidst all the other insane news, this stands out as a remarkable and even surprisingly bad leap forward. It’s not like I consented, like when people put trackers in their car for insurance discounts. I’m literally just going out into public, and that gives a company the right to record and analyze me and my car and report me to the police? I don’t even get the chance to sign up to opt-out, which even that would be fucked up? And of course the algorithms could be anything - going to gay bars, going to libraries, etc.
- Comment on US | Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious” 11 months ago:
It really does feel like a lazy too-on-the-nose name from a sci-fi dystopia writer who REALLY wants to make sure you get the point that the company is evil. It just sounds creepy without even getting into the obvious connotations.
